PBS DIRECTOR'S CUT:Features additional20 minutes of footage

Robert Bly is one of America’s most celebrated poets, easily the most controversial, who has for over a half century crisscrossed the cultural landscape through poetry, translation, activism and social commentary. Best known as the author of the bestseller, "Iron John", which launched a million men drumming in the woods, Bly has been celebrated, vilified, but above all persisted in championing the power and importance of poetry in today’s America. The film features a wide range of prominent writers and thinkers who have crossed paths with Bly – Joseph Campbell, Martin Sheen, Jane Hirshfield, John Densmore, Tracy K. Smith, Donald Hall, Mark Rylance, Gary Snyder and many others. (82 mins.).

1 DVD EVERY WAR HAS TWO LOSERS with second film, WILLIAM STAFFORD & ROBERT BLY: A LITERARY FRIENDSHIP. All directed by Haydn Reiss. Robert Bly is in each film. RUMI also features Coleman Barks, Michael Meade, Huston Smith and others. EVERY WAR also features W.S. Merwin, Alice Walker, Naomi Shihab Nye, Maxine Hong Kingston and others. A LITERARY FRIENDSHIP features Bly and Stafford in intimate gatherings discussing art, teaching and the craft of poetry.